New york city prisoners of war events

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NYC) Book parties: Let Freedom Ring - documents re US
pol.prisoners
(NYC) Book parties: Let Freedom Ring - documents re
US pol.prisoners



Two parties to celebrate the release of the 912-page anthology, Let Freedom Ring: A Collection of Documents from the Movements to Free U.S. Political Prisoners, edited by Matt Meyer:


Thursday, October 23, 6:30 p.m.
Sponsored by Resistance in Brooklyn

Featured Speaker-Contributor s:
Lynne Stewart, activist defense attorney
Ashanti Alston, Co-Chair, National Jericho Movement
Matt Meyer, former Chair, War Resisters League; member, Resistance in Brooklyn
(who will also report on his recent travel through Central Africa and another recent book, Seeds of New Hope: African Peace Studies for the 21st Century)


309 Park Place, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Directions: 2, 3, 4 trains to Grand Army Plaza, walk down Flatbush to Park Place and make a right (1 1/2 blocks), or Q Train to 7th Avenue, cross Flatbush and walk along Park Place until you get to #309.


For more information, call 718-399-8366.

10% discount on books available here (i.e., at this event, $34).

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Friday, October 24, 2008, 7:00 p.m.
Sponsored by The Catholic Worker and War Resisters League

No More Never Agains: From Pan-African Peace Building to New Afrikan Prison Resistance in the USA
(Also featuring another book edited by Matt Meyer: Seeds of New Hope: African Peace Studies for the 21st Century)
Speaker: Matt Meyer

Catholic Worker, 36 East 1st Street (just east of 2d Ave.), Manhattan (F train to 2d Ave.)

For more information, call 718-399-8366.

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About the book:

LET FREEDOM RING: A Collection of Documents from the Movements to Free U.S. Political Prisoners
Edited by Matt Meyer
Forward by Nobel Peace Laureate Adolfo Perez Esquivel
Afterwards by Lynne Stewart and Ashanti Alston
PM Press / Kersplebedeb co-publication
$37.95

Let Freedom Ring presents a two-decade sweep of essays, analyses, histories, interviews, resolutions, People's Tribunal verdicts, and poems by and about the scores of U.S. political prisoners and the campaigns to safeguard their rights and secure their freedom. In addition to an extensive section on the campaign to free death-row journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, represented here are the radical movements that have most challenged the U.S. empire from within: Black Panthers and other Black liberation fighters, Puerto Rican independentistas, Indigenous sovereignty activists, white anti-imperialists, environmental and animal rights militants, Arab and Muslim activists, Iraq war resisters, and others. Contributors in and out of prison detail the repressive methods--from long-term isolation to sensory deprivation to politically inspired parole denial--used to attack these freedom fighters, some still caged after 30+ years. This invaluable resource guide offers inspiring stories of the
creative, and sometimes winning, strategies to bring them home.

Contributors include: Mumia Abu-Jamal, Dan Berger, Dhoruba Bin-Wahad, Bob Lederer, Terry Bisson, Laura Whitehorn, Safiya Bukhari, The San Francisco 8, Angela Davis, Bo Brown, Bill Dunne, Jalil Muntaqim, Susie Day, Luis Nieves Falc?n, Ninotchka Rosca, Meg Starr, Assata Shakur, Jill Soffiyah Elijah, Jan Susler, Chrystos, Jose Lopez, Leonard Peltier, Marilyn Buck, Oscar L?pez Rivera, Sundiata Acoli, Ramona Africa, Linda Thurston, Desmond Tutu, Mairead Corrigan Maguire, and many more.

Advance comments about the book:

"Within every society there are people who, at great personal risk and sacrifice, stand up and fight for the most marginalized among us. We call these people of courage, spirit and love, our heroes and heroines. This book is the story of the ones in our midst. It is the story of the best we are."
--asha bandele, poet and author of The Prisoner's Wife

"This extraordinary volume powerfully and eloquently brings together the voices of so many U.S. political prisoners. Taken one at a time, the stories, poems, communiqu?s, and analyses are not only heartbreaking in the suffering, courage and indomitable fortitude they manifest, but also paint a clear and damning picture of routine U.S. repression. When read as a whole, this book can do no other than inspire a new generation of activists and revolutionaries to free these prisoners and to bring down this whole wretched system of exploitation, theft, and murder. Thank you to the editors and to the contributors, and thank you most especially to the political prisoners themselves, who are giving their lives and are teaching us by their example how to be free men and women." --Derrick Jensen, activist and author of How Shall I Live My Life

"As a convicted felon, I have been prevented from visiting many people in prison today. But none of us should be stopped from the vital work of prison abolition and freeing the many who the U.S. holds for political reasons. Let Freedom Ring helps make their voices heard, and presents strategies to help win their release."
--Daniel Berrigan SJ, former Plowshares political prisoner and member of the FBI Top Ten Wanted List.

About the Editor:

Matt Meyer is an educator-activist, based in New York City. Founding PJSA Co-Chair along with USF Dean Jennifer Turpin, Meyer has long worked to bring together academics and activists for lasting social change. A former public draft registration resister and chair of the War Resisters League, he continues to serve as convener of the War Resisters International Africa Working Group. With Bill Sutherland, Meyer authored Guns and Gandhi in Africa: Pan-African Insights on Nonviolence, Armed Struggle and Liberation. He has edited the Fellowship of Reconciliation' s "Puerto Rico: The Cost of Colonialism; " War in Africa and an African Peace; and the forthcoming two-volume Seeds of New Hope: African Peace Studies for the 21st Century.